Improved paper box



A. B. HENDRYX.

- PAPER BOX.

No. 88,165. Patented Mar. 23, 1869.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

A. B. HENDBYX, OF ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVED PAPER BOX.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 88,165, dated March 23,1869.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, A. B. HENDRYX, of Ansonia, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in PaperBoxes; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference markedthereon, to be a 'full, clear, and exact description of the same, andwhich said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in

Figure 1, a perspective view of the box, and in Fig. 2 a diagramillustrating the construction.

This invention relates to an improvementin paper boxes for variouspurposes, especially in that class of boxes which are made from a singlepiece of pasteboard, such as commonly have their angles cut away,theirfbur sides turned up, and a strip of paper pasted over the angle.It is well known that the angles thus formed are weak and easily broken.

The object of my invention is to form a stronger angle, and without thenecessary enr ployment of the pasted strip upon the angle.

To this end myinvention consistsin cutting dovetails upon the severalangles, so that the tails on the one side will turninto the recesses onthe other. The edges of the dovetails bei n g glued, the whole issecured together in the most perfect manner.

To enable others to fully understand my invention, I will proceed todescribe the same as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

A represents the bottom; B, the four sides, cut from a single piece ofpasteboard. The

broken lines (6 represent the cuts where the four 'sides are turned up.

Heretofore the entire angle has been cut away, as at f f; then, when thesides were turned up, a strip of paper pasted over the an-- gle. Toavoid this I cut, upon one end of the several sides, tails d, formingrecesses e between the tails, so that when the sides are turned up, asin Fig. 1, the tails on one side are bent around and into the recesseson the other. These being'glued or pasted securely hold the angles, andform a stronger and more perfect box than the constructions asheretofore. The form of the tails and recesses is immaterial, so thatthe one corresponds to the other.

I do not wish to be understood as broadly claiming securing the anglesof a box bydovetailing; and, further, I am aware of the patents of J. S.Hoard, May 23, 1865, and T. H.

Doolittle, September 12,1865, also of the pateut'of Edward Morris,September 12,18t'5', and do not claim anything described or shown insaid patents.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, -is.-

A paper box in which the angles are secured by means of the tails d onone side turned into corresponding recesses on the other, substantiallyas set forth.

A. B. HENDRYX. Witnesses:

A. J. TIBBITs, J. H. SHUMWAY.

